To be fair, it’s sucked for awhile. Who talks shit on food not bombs? Radlibs. The answers radlibs.

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    warned listeners against retreating to “anarcho shit like food not bombs” post Bernie

    Sounds like a bit of shit talk mixed with a legitimate criticism, which is kind of the show's whole MO.

    Doing good things in your immediate community is good, but it's not going to solve any large problem (like climate change). There is a real risk of giving up on large problems, helping your community, and then your community getting fucked by those large problems when they come home to roost. Helping your neighbors is good, but if that's all we do we're going to fail.

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      4 years ago

      Doing good things in your immediate community is good, but it’s not going to solve any large problem (like climate change).

      Local organization meeting international conversation. Action can be recruitment as well. If you hear that a bunch of socialists just cleaned all the trash out of your local part, it will probably change your view on socialists.

      No local community shit won't solve global warming, but like literally nothing I can do will solve global warming. But I could clean up my local environment with a relatively small group of people.

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        If you hear that a bunch of socialists just cleaned all the trash out of your local part, it will probably change your view on socialists.

        All of this is 100% good. My focus was on the "retreating" language, which suggests doing local activism but nothing bigger. I think there's a risk of doing great things in your neighborhood only to see all that swept away when the big problem you ignored matures.

        nothing I can do will solve global warming

        Nothing you can do 100% on your own will solve global warming, and any solution will take years to create. But that doesn't mean you can't support state or national organizations that are working in the right direction.